“It is 5 a.m. A Midwest farmer sips coffee in front of a computer. Up-to-the-minute satellite images show a weed problem in a field on the north-west corner of the farm. At 6:30 a.m., the farmer ...

Researchers around the world are working to make all that dust in the wind a bit smarter. So-called "smart dust," minuscule particles full of sensing, computing and communication goodness, has been a ...

One of the challenges of realizing smart dust concepts, as well as nano- and microrobotics in general, is a lack of equally small on-chip power sources for ubiquitous anytime anywhere operation. One ...

To look into the future and see dust sounds like a prediction for pessimists. But we're not talking ground dirt - listen carefully and there's a growing buzz around a nanotechnology idea known as ...